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Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > Geoff Howard wrote: > >> At 06:13 AM 3/24/2003, you wrote: >> >>> Niclas Hedhman wrote: >>> >>>> On Monday 24 March 2003 17:25, Christian Haul wrote: >>>> >>>>> This is an open *source* project, and a couple of things are a lot >>>>> easier to do at compile time rather than at run time. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, like >>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ >>>> make >>>> make install >>>> for specifying installation directory, right? >>> >>> >>> >>> Oh, please, that's not the case. Cocoon is *NOT* an application, >>> it's a framework. Our users are developers. They *MUST* be. What's >>> the point of having a joe-user-proof installation system to avoid >>> them to open up the hood when they *will* have to take the engine >>> apart anyway later? >>> >>>> Need to think beyond the power-programmer... Even the casual >>>> programmer struggles with configure/make systems, and often fails >>>> and leaves. >>> >>> >>> >>> If the casual programmer is not able to do >>> >>> > export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/ >>> > ./build.sh webapp >>> > ./cocoon.sh servlet >>> >>> that it does *US* a favor if he fails and leaves. Open source is not >>> about market share, it's about solid communities. >> >> >> >> Cocoon cuts across a number of different disciplines (java, xml at >> least?) and so "casual programmer" means different things. > > > Very true. > >> I am amazed at the number of people on users who claim to know no java. > > > Yes. This is going to be even more with the introduction of the flow > since people with client-side knowledge (html + css + javascript + xml > + namespace + xslt) will be able to write full-blown web applications > with database connectivity *without* a single line of a language they > don't know nor understand. > > This is potentially *HUGE*. Yet is a community shift that might find > *ourselves* not-prepared to stand the flood of those people and their > mindsets because most of us don't come from that background and people > in that client-side-web background have no notion of SoC, IoC nor any > abstract concept like OOP, COP or AOP, nor even the most basic design > patterns. > > This cultural clash is potentially *very* harmful for both sides if > the mindset transition is not done smoothly. Very clever analysis, which resonates with my view of the evolution of software engineering since Java (or the web ?) appeared. The world of "developpers" is more and more split in two categories those who build components or frameworks, and those who use it. This is nothing new compared to other domains of the human activity : you have house builders and brick makers, you have electronic device designers and chip makers, etc. And Cocoon offers so high-level abstractions that people can use it without caring about what's going on under the hood, even not caring about Java. Well, almost without caring, since Cocoon is sometimes a leaky abstraction [1] ;-) >> - they may be installing java for the first time, which (because of >> sun's windows installer) may have no idea what JAVA_HOME is or should >> be. They'll need to know this regardless, we just have to add even >> this to the list of hurdles they already need to jump. > > > for windows, the sun's installer copies java.exe in the PATH, so we > need to have them set JAVA_HOME *ONLY* if there is no java.exe > available in path. Be careful : what sun's installer copies into the PATH is a *JRE* and not a JDK, which means you have no compiler. So they will end up with something like "NoClassDefFoundError: com.sun.javac.Main" :-( A solution can be for Cocoon to use one of the compilers it's shipped with. Don't know if it's feasible, though. <snip/> > I think this is YAGNI. You like this acronym, eh ? ;-) > I say: let's start incrementally: we build one well-done > build.sh-driven distro and see what is the user reaction. *then* move > from there. > > What do you think? If we can solve the JAVA_HOME issue, then +0. Sylvain [1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions. -- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies http://www.apache.org/~sylvain http://www.anyware-tech.com { XML, Java, Cocoon, OpenSource }*{ Training, Consulting, Projects }
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Casper (1995)
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Directed by: Brad Silberling
Starring: Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty, Christina Ricci, Eric Idle
Corrected entry: When Casper is taking Kat a glass of juice, he holds it at the stalk and turns invisible. When he turns visible again, he is cupping the glass.JoshJ91099
Corrected entry: When Kat's dad is fighting the 3 ghosts in the beginning, one cuts off his pants. Right after, when he gets the plunger, they're back on him again.
Correction: Only his belt was cut which in turn made his pants fall down, but then kat's dad hobbles into a different room and shuts and locks the door. A few moments later he comes back with the plunger and his pants were pulled up.Jennifurball
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, when Kat meets Casper, his hand goes right through hers, indicating he wouldn't be able to hold onto flesh without going through it, but there are plenty of time during the movie where the ghosts hold onto people. Casper is even able to fly while dangling Kat.
Corrected entry: Ghosts don't crossover as long as they have unfinished business. Casper's father had invented a machine called the lazarus, in a quest to bring Casper back to life, but he never got it to work. Therefore, Casper's father should have stayed as a ghost until he succeeded.mightymick
Correction: No, ghosts who have unfinished business may choose to cross-over or choose to stay in the hopes of completing their business; they don't have to stay. Even so, Casper's father built the machine to bring his son back to life. Once he died, he'd no longer need his son to be alive in order to be with him again. That means he had no unfinished business.Phixius
Corrected entry: It is said that ghosts don't crossover as long as they have unfinished business. This means Casper, Stretch, Fatso and Stinky should have unfinished business, but why they are present is never explained.mightymick
Corrected entry: When Dibbs and Carrigan are talking outside of the house early in the movie, before the priest goes into the house, Dibbs is wearing a suit...after the priest goes in and comes back out with his head twisted, Dibbs is wearing a different suit than he was 10 seconds ago.
Corrected entry: Casper and his uncles became ghosts with no clothes on, but when Doctor Harvey and Cariggan die, they appear as ghosts in the clothes they died in.
Corrected entry: When Kat is in the Up and At Them she gets toothpaste and shaving cream on her. When she arrives in the lab not only is her face clean but also her dress. There is no way that she would have been able to clean her dress, even if she managed to clean her face.
Correction: Kat didn't have shaving cream shot to her when she was going through the conveyor. The toothpaste was on her, but later in the conveyor she was being washed and dried. it's possible that a towel was given too, since the shaving cream was eliminated from Kat trip versus Dibbs and Kerrigan's trip.
Corrected entry: When Casper pushes Kat back through the machine, there are a few shots where he isn't there to push her backwards.
Corrected entry: In the film, Casper says that ghosts don't have reflections, but at the end of the film when the two kids at the party are looking at their costume in the mirror the ghostly trio appear behind them.
Correction: The scenario is that the two kids are looking in the mirror and the camera views their reflection. When the ghostly trio comes up, they show up from the mirror, not the kids. But since the kids are looking at the mirror (and that is our point of view as well) it is natural to assume that the trio is with us rather than coming from the mirror. If you watch carefully when the kids run away, the trio come from the mirror to chase them out.
Corrected entry: There is a scene where Kat and Casper are talking in Kat's bedroom. Kat is sitting at her vanity brushing her hair and Casper is sitting on her jewellery box. They are talking about why Kat won't take Casper to the Halloween party. Casper asks what the other guy has that he doesn't. One thing Kat says is that the guy has a reflection. Casper looks in the mirror and he doesn't have a reflection. The thing is, neither does Kat. She is sitting right in front of the mirror and yet you don't see her reflection.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Dr Harvey is fighting with Stretch, Stinky, and Fatso, the ghostly trio know his name and where he's from without being introduced or anything. How do they know this information?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Dr. Harvey vacuum's up Stinky, Fatso and Stretch, they can't get out of the vacuum bag. And yet later on in the film, Carrigan becomes a ghost and easily goes through Casper's steel safe and gets the treasure.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Casper ties people's laces together, how can Casper tie laces and not be able to touch Kat?
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Just a note that the Film Forum is screening Andrzej Zulawski's POSSESSION, a Bleeding Light Film Group release, and Anthology Film Archives will be having a Anarchism on Film series later this month--if you happen to catch any of these, let me know what you think!
I'm delighted to yet again be a (small) part of the Desk Set Biblioball! Come out and support Literacy for Incarcerated Teens and pick up a copy of the soon-to-be-released The Borough is My Library: A Metropolitan Library Workers Zine, #3!
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No library can be safely stored when it has been removed from its librarians by force in the middle of the night.
No library is being safely stored when it is kept from its readers.
Just a short note here about the talk that I attended yesterday that the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative put on featuring Ben Vershbow of NYPL Labs: This was one of the most inspiring library-related talks I've been to in a long time. Maybe it was due to the fact that at Pratt I spent a lot of time pulling out print Sanborn maps for architecture students and puzzling over their layout and metadata that I was utterly amazed by the Map Warper project, or that I had just last summer had a discussion with Jim Danky about how important it would be if libraries would collect menus that I love the public collaborative What's on the Menu transcription project. But I suspect that even without these personal experiences, I would have been wowed by what they're up to at NYPL. It's great that they are working to share special collections in such useful ways for New Yorkers and the world. Hooray!
You can keep up with NYPL Labs at their blog, and a recording of the talk has been posted at CUNY DHI (a group who also continually impresses me).
I just found out today that the old Kardex files that I used to use at the Wisconsin Historical Society are being retired (and all the thousands of serial titles from the Newspapers and Periodicals department are now in MadCat). This system was used at the WHS for more than 40 years, just a few of which I got to spend with James Danky and Tina Enemuoh and a handful of student workers in room 225, typewriters clacking away, even as recently as 2006.
It's Open Access Week, and so far 2011 has impressed me. From Barbara Fister's reveal of what journals are costing her library (going against nondisclosure agreements), to Maura Smale's Open Access Pledge.
I'm joining Maura and Barbara and many other colleagues who are celebrating Open Access this week.
At Maura's recommendation, I signed the Open Access Pledge. I also think that Maura's new publishing pledge is fantastic. I would like to use it as my own from here on out:
What is Open Access? As someone who has struggled with variances in OA definitions, I believe that the Berlin Declaration captures OA in the clearest manner:
Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:
The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving.
Open Access is more than the ability to view an article without paying for it,* or without your library having to pay for it. Open Access can be seen as a commitment to hacking copyright--in a way that provides more ways for everyone to use a creators' work (similar to the ways that free software licensing insures more freedom).
Please join us for CUNY's Open Access Week if you are able, or plan/discuss/pledge wherever you are!
I'll admit: it snuck up on me this year and I feel silly posting this late! Happy Sandy Berman Appreciation Month 2011 nonetheless!
Please help to support the work of the techies whose professional commitments to privacy are most closely aligned with what we librarians try to uphold (not keeping any data that isn't necessary to function, not working with the feds on surveillance): Riseup
Here's their call for contributions:
Riseup works tirelessly to create grassroots technology alternatives that address the communication needs of people and organizations working for social change. When you get a service from a corporation that doesn't charge you, chances are that the money comes from extensive surveillance. Riseup, on the other hand, relies on donations by users like you who believe in supporting democratic alternatives.
For more information about Riseup, you can meet our members and check out our project areas. Riseup is a registered nonprofit under section 501(c)(4) of the US Internal Revenue Code.
Donations to riseup.net are not tax-deductible. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation (US), you can contribute to our sister organization, RiseupLabs.
Suggested contribution:
Individuals: We ask that individuals with email accounts or owners of lists give monthly or yearly. If you are broke, live in the global South, or live somewhere with a devalued currency, we don't expect you to give. This means that those with money in the global North should contribute extra as an act of solidarity. If you are unsure how much to contribute, might we suggest $5-$15 a month? If you can do more, please do!
Groups: We rely on organizations with email accounts or lists to contribute. It is especially essential for organizations with big mailing lists to contribute, as such lists are costly for us to provide. As a rough guideline, we ask that organizations annually contribute at least 1% of their annual budget—this is a $100 a year donation for an organization is an annual budget of $10,000.
If you have a big list with over a hundred subscribers or with high traffic and lots of archives, increase the suggested donation amount several fold.
Please consider donating more if you can afford it. Any money left over after we have met our basic expenses gets folded back into providing service to more users. If you are making a large donation (thank you!), then please consider sending a check or money order through the mail—online payment systems take a cut of about 3%.
All financial decisions by the Riseup Collective are made using the consensus process by collective members.
Jenna wrote a great report back of our work on Friday at the Occupy Wall Street People's Library. There's a lot more information about what's happening at the Occupy Wall Street Library blog.
I've been trying to balance an already-overwhelming semester with my desire to help the library and OWS in any way that I can. I would really like to figure out ways to help answer questions from afar. Is twitter the way to go? (I helped a bit with a twitter q&a at the USSF and that seemed accessible...) Some kind of chat? Dial-a-librarian? How can we librarians help the folks who are representing so many of us?
The NYC Radical Reference collective will be meeting at the People's Library at Zuccotti Park Friday, October 7th at 6pm in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. We'll be doing street reference, and helping the library and the people as are able.
Join us!
Please bring plastic tubs for the library and sleeping bags, blankets, warm clothes and love for the folks of Occupy Wall Street.
It was really amazing to be a part of Occupy Wall Street today. I am proud to support this movement as a member of the PSC-CUNY, a CUNY student who walked out on my homework for a day, and as a person who supports this site as a place for conversations about a better world.
Friday, October 28, 2011
CUNY Graduate Center—Room 9204
free and open to the public
As a culmination of CUNY Open Access Week 2011, and in conjunction with the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, this panel will unravel issues surrounding open access scholarly publishing. Our panelists will share their inspiration for becoming open access advocates, their thinking about adopting particular licenses for their work, and the processes through which they have liberated their scholarship—from their perspectives as authors, editors and publishers.
The panel will include:
Members of the Radical Teacher editorial collective: Emily Drabinski is an Instruction Librarian at Long Island University, Brooklyn, James Davis and Joseph Entin, both Associate Professors of English at Brooklyn College. Radical Teacher is a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal about the theory and practice of teaching. Published in print since 1975, the journal has recently decided to transition to an open access model.
Matthew K. Gold is an Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology and of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he serves as Advisor to the Provost for Master's Programs and Digital Initiatives. He recently edited the book Debates in the Digital Humanities, which will be published through the University of Minnesota Press in January 2012 both as a printed text and an expanded, open-access edition on the web.
Michael Mandiberg is an artist and Assistant Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and on the Doctoral Faculty of the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the coauthor of Digital Foundations: An Intro to Media Design, Collaborative Futures, and the editor of The Social Media Reader.
Trebor Scholz is a scholar, artist, organizer and chair of the conference series The Politics of Digital Culture at The New School in NYC. His forthcoming monograph with Polity offers a history of the Social Web and its Orwellian economies. In spring 2011, he co-authored From Mobile Playgrounds to Sweatshop City (with Laura Y. Liu). Scholz is the editor of two collections of essays, Learning Through Digital Media (iDC, 2011) and a volume on digital labor (Routledge, 2012). He also founded the Institute for Distributed Creativity that is widely known for its online discussions of critical network culture.
For more information about Open Access publishing, and CUNY's 2011 Open Access Week events, see the Open Access @ CUNY blog on the CUNY Academic Commons, or get in touch with Professor Alycia Sellie: email@example.com
Following Vicky's lead, this year I'm going to devote half of my reading to works made by women of color. I've got an overall goal of reading 60 books in 2016 (gulp). If you're interested to take on a similar challenge, Vicky's reading lists are a great place to start. Happy reading, all!
Been listening to H is for Hawk. So far I drift in and out of really hearing it, but the part about an unexpected death rings true. But it's not a punch in the stomach--it's a bowling ball to the guts. Wishing I'd developed that film that was of the piece I made in college that I must have threw away, but I also don't regret getting rid of things usually.
Reading/dog-earing Coates' Between the World and Me.
Finished the Slice Harvester memoir within 12 hours of getting it from ILL. Highly recommended. Made me reminiscent of when I moved to the city and we would get a slice from Luigi's, back when Luigi was still there (and you would not necessarily encounter the dude who we now refer to as the "our friend jesus" guy), and eat it sitting by the canon every single day before my evening shift, with the ferocious pizza-eating squirrels.


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Sue Standing
Sue Standing (author page at Amazon) teaches at Wheaton College. Her poems have been published in APR, Poetry Northwest, The Nation, and elsewhere. Last year Zephyr Press put out her chapbook Amphibious Weather. (1982)
Standing's book Gravida was reviewed in AGNI 43 by Martha Collins.
AGNI has published the following work by Sue Standing:
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|•Six Values of Neutral Gray
|•The Very Rich Hours
|•Wittgenstein's Prayer
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My son is at the age where we are starting to learn the basics. As a parent im trying to come across easy ways to help him learn his colors, shapes, letters and numbers. Trying to come up with ways to teach your child their colors can be quite complicating and frustrating. So I thought I needed to make it fun for him to keep him entertained and interested in learning color matching.
So I created this quick and easy color matching wheel. The best part it didn't cost me a thing, since I had everything on hand already and it only took about an hour of my time.
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Cardboard box (I used a diaper box)
Acrylic paint in assorted colors
Clothes pins
Grab a nice shaped bowl from the kitchen and trace it on the cardboard. With your ruler divide circle into 8 even triangles. Paint each triangle and 1 clothes pin the same color and continue until each triangle is a different color. Now you can write the color on both the triangle and clothes pin.
Hand it over to your toddler and help them match the clothes pin to the color on the color wheel.


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Frolic into the New Year with the Westminster dog show
By Marc Katz
I usually don't tell people how to spend their money or make vacation recommendations, but it's a new year, with a new administration, and new rules.
If you've found some extra holiday money jingling around in your pocket, New York City on Feb. 13 and 14 is the place to go.
Hard to believe I'm writing this, but those are the dates of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and while I respectfully consider it on the fringe of sport, it is a marvelous show to attend.
In my 41-year career as a sports writer, I've attended the World Series, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, Rose Bowl, and countless other events, big and small. I have to admit, the Westminster ranks as high as any of them.
I never actually covered it, but I wrote about it, and attended. Twice.
I don't even own a dog, as you may know, and some of you might remember when I wrote a few months back about a friend who ate dog at the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
I repeat, I didn't eat dog. My friend ate dog.
And, by the way, I had no intention of ever attending the Westminster until one fine day when I decided to write about it in a Dayton Daily News sports broadcast media column. My wife Julie—who had a dog as a child—read it and decided to watch. She became enthralled.
"We should go to this," she said.
"Tell me about it when you return," I said.
All of the sudden, we own two, two-day, all-event tickets and are walking around Madison Square Garden trying not to step in any doo-doo.
Actually, the floors were very clean, and there was very little barking. These dogs are well mannered.
As you'll quickly find out, every dog of every breed was originally born to hunt rodents on farms. Dogs today are companions, although some still kill rodents. I'm leaving out a lot in the middle, but you know why you own a dog.
I'm still not convinced the Westminster is a sporting event, but it was so much fun, I went back a second time. It's a beauty pageant for dogs, which means, if a certain guy were president back then, some of the dogs definitely would have been considered fat.
Well, probably not. To qualify for the Westminster, you have to be almost perfect from the start. Julie and I happened to find a judge who, in a very English accent, explained the perfection process. Wearing braces to straighten teeth would be considered disqualifying.
So if you'd rather your pet be judged on how it fetches a bone and not on how its back knee sockets allow it to wiggle across the room in a perfect dog trot, this isn't the place for you.
I will tell you this: it's the only place I can remember where you can roam freely among the participants and judges, see what's happening up close, and ask what's happening if you don't know. You'll see everything from a dog being groomed to one taking a poop.
Remember, I said watch your step.
The first time I went, in 2004, everything from the benching area to the judging rings were housed inside Madison Square Garden. The benching area, just off the main floor of the arena where the NBA Knicks and NHL Rangers play, is where the dogs rested and were groomed and fed.
The main floor of the arena is where most of the judging is held, and there's a lot more judging than you see on television (various Fox networks, including FS1 for Tuesday night's Best of Show conclusion).
Recently, much of the judging has been moved to Piers 92/94 by the Hudson River, just a short cab or subway ride away.
However, with an all-event pass, you're not only allowed everywhere, you can exit and enter the buildings multiple times, even to shop (Macy's is across the street from MSG), although anything "dog" is sold at the show.
It's not all genteel, either. In 2004 when favored terrier Coco wasn't a finalist for Best of Show, the crowd was not abusive, but not happy, either.
Oh yeah, the crowd. Only the first few rows you see on television are filled with tuxedoed men and fully-gowned and bejeweled women.
The rest of the folks are in flannel and down-filled coats, just like you'd wear walking your dog.
What's the cost? Day tickets (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) are $32, all-event tickets for one day run $75-100, and two-day all-event tickets are $210.
Airfare from Dayton to LaGuardia is just under $300. A three-to-five star hotel is at the most reasonable rates of the year (according to my unscientific calculations) of between $200-$300 a night.
You're not going to see any other major event at those costs, and you may have more fun being at this one.
Oh, and like the World Series or Super Bowl, it happens every year. If you just want to take a peek for now, watch it on television. I'm giving you a month to get ready.
And stop kicking around Fido if he doesn't measure up.
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- Chapter H said...
Nice, a new format. A white guy better not forget to pickup the milk. His wife will be upset.
- October 9, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- Embrace The Martian said...
I think it's time to do the video thing, guys. Robby -- I'm returning to the Ith in a couple weeks. I vote we do a trial-run then.
- October 12, 2009 at 12:09 AM
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Wait...why am I communicating with you via A Pasty Pint. Fuck.
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Last August WE tv's president Marc Juris crowed, "Sex Box is one of the most unique and compelling show concepts we've ever seen, and we can't wait to bring it to WE tv."
Juris may now be licking his wounds, as this self-described "bold show" seems to have lost advertisers and Juris has had to move Sex Box from primetime to the midnight graveyard.
In Sex Box, a couple has sex in front of a studio audience (inside a sound-and-sight-proof booth), then emerge as the post-coital "cuddle hormone" oxytocin courses through their bodies to receive relationship counseling from a panel of experts. WE tv says, "post coital therapy is more powerful and effective" than any other kind.
As giddy as the programmers were with their new show when it was announced last summer, parents were equally outraged and took to the Internet to express their outrage. The Parent's Television Council (PTC) started a petition that got 42,000 angry parents involved.
Now, after the airing of only four Sex Box episodes, PTC tells Breitbart News the show has lost all national advertisers. They say Arm and Hammer ran an ad for Truly Radiant deodorant in the first episode but pulled it after PTC complaints.
Melissa Henson, head of grassroots advocacy for PTC, told Breitbart News the only national advertiser to appear in the second episode on March 6th was Skechers, but the Skechers ad appeared in Sex Box without their specific approval. Skechers sent an email to Henson's group saying theirs is a family brand and would therefore no longer appear on Sex Box.
Henson told Breitbart News that PTC contacted 200 national advertising prior to the Sex Box premiere on February 27 and warned them the show would have offensive content. By the third episode, aired on March 13th, not a single national ad appeared, according to Henson. "We have monitors all over the country and we did not see a national advertiser in any market," said Henson.
In what may be the best evidence the show is failing, tonight's fourth episode of Sex Box has been moved from its primetime spot of 10 pm to midnight, a time when virtually all networks only ever run repeats.
A spokesman for WE tv told Breitbart News they "would not respond to any of the things said by Parent's Television Council."
The spokesman specifically refused to answer questions about losing national advertising.
However, she did confirm the show was being moved from its primetime spot to midnight. She claimed, "The reason for moving the show is we really are looking to expand the show to get more viewers."
When asked what other shows on WE tv at midnight outperform primetime programming, she said, "This the first time we are trying out that time slot with premier programming."
She refused to say if the controversy surrounding the show has hurt advertising or viewership.
Melissa Henson and PTC monitors around the country will certainly have their DVRs set for Sex Box tonight at midnight on AMC's WE tv network.
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During Billy's execution, the ship is very quiet. Then a murmur arises among the men and grows louder. Captain Vere, fearing that the sailors are revoking Billy's blessing upon him, orders the boatswain to pipe everyone down and put them quickly to work.
Billy is sewn into his coffin-hammock, with shot for ballast. Then a second all-hands on deck is called for the men to witness the burial. As Billy's body is slid into the sea, a second murmur from the men is heard. There is also screeching from large seafowl, who have flocked to the site; they fly very near the deck and then circle the place in the water where Billy goes down. This is Billy's requiem.
The men think that the appearance of the birds is a significant event and begin to stir about it. As a result, they are quickly drum- beat to their positions. Used to obeying orders, they move to their stations and make their reports, an hour earlier than usual. The men note that it is odd for Captain Vere to change a schedule or routine. By the time the band plays its usual morning tune and the chaplain says his morning prayer, it is full daylight, clean and fresh as uncut, polished marble.
Some days after the hanging, the purser asks the surgeon about the lack of movement in Billy's dying body, almost as if Billy's will power were in control of his physical being; there should have been muscular spasms. The surgeon admits that lack of movement is phenomenal, and he has never seen such stillness. The surgeon doesn't understand it; but he doesn't want to talk to the purser about it either. The purser suggests that Billy's death was actually a type of euthanasia. The surgeon finds this ridiculous and says that "euthanasia" and "will power" are not scientific terms. He then quickly takes his leave.
A few weeks later, a naval chronicle prints an account of the events aboard the Indomitable. Although written in good faith, it is the result of some horribly twisted rumor. The story places Claggart as the tragic victim of a mutinous ringleader, one William Budd. It further suggests that Budd was no Englishman, but an impostor. The article goes on to say that Claggart was a respectable and patriotic servant of the crown, stabbed to death right in front of the captain while trying to arraign the mutinous criminal Budd. Budd was justly hung, and all is now well aboard the ship.
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Anti-Trump protesters "March for Truth"
- by Max Haynes
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- — Jun 4, 2017
This time it was a "March for Truth".
Thousands of protestors are calling for an independent probe into the Trump administration's possible ties to the Russian government at "March for Truth" rallies across the United States on Saturday.
Competing rallies, connected by the same focus: U.S. President Donald Trump. One of the Watergate prosecutors even said Trump is headed to the same fate as president Nixon.
In New York, protesters gathered in Foley Square and heard from numerous speakers, including Hamilton star Javier Muñoz and Rep. Jerrold Nadler. "I mean, this affects our constitution".
Demonstrators take part in the March for Truth rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., June 3, 2017.
Besides the special counsel designated by the Justice Department to investigate Russia's attempt to interfere in the USA elections, the protest organisers demand the creation of an independent commission like the one that investigated the September 11, 2001 attacks against the US.
Meanwhile, in Washington, a smaller group estimated between several dozen and several hundred Trump supporters gathered for a "Pittsburgh not Paris" event to applaud the president's Thursday decision to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement climate pact.
The crowd gathered to celebrate the President's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement. A "Pittsburgh, not Paris" rally is being held in Lafayette Square across from the White House in celebration of the USA withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. "That's why we're marching on Saturday".
"When he mentioned Pittsburgh, it touched my heart", Vincent Fusca said of Trump's use of Fusca's hometown.
Rafael Nadal blows away Nikoloz Basilashvili to reach French Open fourth round
Raonic was leading 6-1, 1-0 when 153rd-ranked Garcia-Lopez quit after just 28 minutes of their third round encounter. Belgium's David Goffin retired with an ankle problem in his match against Horacio Zeballos of Argentina.
Spicer refers Russia investigation questions to Trump's outside attorney
White House communications director Michael Dubke announced his resignation Tuesday, saying it had been an honor to serve Trump . The equally confusing White House explanation was too late to head off a some mercilessly fun at the 45th president's expense.
Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine files lawsuit against opioid manufacturers
The effects of the opioid crisis have been felt across the United States, and OH is not the first to sue drug companies. Purdue said it shares DeWine's concerns about the opioid crisis and wants to work together on a solution.
Note: By choosing to attend this event, you are acknowledging the risks involved, and you are committing to participate nonviolently and in accordance with the law, and to work to de-escalate confrontations with opposing persons or others. Critics quickly noted the voters of Pittsburgh supported Trump's rival, Hillary Clinton, by a large margin.
"'America first" and "Make America Great Again' is exactly what he campaigned on".
"The fact that this man could be president for four years scares me to death", he said. "So, we will rise together to call for a complete, fair and impartial investigation, for the pursuit of truth, and for the restoration of faith in our electoral system and the Office of the Presidency". So for me, the investigation is about Russian Federation, of course, and the myriad connections between Trump's people and Russian Federation, but it's also about fact versus fiction.
Sharp political passions over President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and his links to Russian Federation brought people onto the streets of cities around the globe on Saturday, mostly to condemn but some to praise him.
"It's important for everyone to get out in the street and stand against the lies".
"So we want to thank all those who support Agent Orange for coming to our rally today because we welcome all", she said in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Anne Bedrick of New Rochelle, New York, carried an upside down American flag, which she said symbolized "a country in distress".
As if to drive the point home further that truth is needed, journalist Alejandro Alvarez spoke to two other Trump supporters at the White House, one of whom claimed that "CNN is ISIS" (they're not). Everything, from the environment to immigration, to women's rights and health care.
"I firmly believe that the success of the resistance depends on the intersectionality of all our movements", Mendoza told ABC News via email.


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Axel Merk on Inflation, Currencies and the Likelihood of a Greater Depression• http://www.thedailybell.com, with Anthony Wile
Daily Bell: Tell us about Merk Funds. How much does it manage and in what capacities?
Axel Merk: Merk Funds manages over $600 million in four mutual funds; we invest in currencies, international fixed income securities and gold. We try to give investors managed currency risk in a variety of forms, seeking to profit from a rise in currencies. One of our products is what we call non-directional, which is more tactical in nature.
Daily Bell: As early as 2003 you identified the building of the credit bubble. How was that possible? You use Austrian economics?
Axel Merk: First, with regards to Austrian economics, many people say that I'm an Austrian, but I like to have my own way of thinking about the world. Throughout my career – and that includes my academic work as a student – I've always focused on volatility. I wrote a book in 2009, Sustainable Wealth. Without going through the entire book, basically the driving force of the environment we are in is induced by monetary policy that kicks the world into overdrive. When you have the world in overdrive, commodity prices go up and there are all kinds of unintended consequences, many of which we have seen today.


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Within minutes of an important Supreme Court ruling on abortion today upholding most of the provisions of a restrictive Pennsylvania law, anti-abortion groups in Maryland were saying the court did not go far enough.
But abortion-rights groups, also displeased with the ruling, were calling it "bad news" because it appears to give states broad new power to restrict abortions.
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It is always a bummer when friends move away but that also means there is a couch you can stay on in a far away place. This August I visited a very squishy futon in Charleston South Carolina. There are beaches there so I brought my SUP and kayak. It is hard to paddle in the ocean so we found Folly River for some flat water. I was mostly focusing on snapshots but I was able to create a few images that were more than just selfies. While I was in Charleston I also found a little time to play with the MKII at the Angel Tree Oak. A huge oak tree that can not even support its own branches. A few years ago I shot a similar tree in Georgia.
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Senior Center Bingo: 12 noon Every Thursday and First two Saturdays; 49111 Cinder Lane - behind the Community Center, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 658-2200.
Vision Academy - Senior Center: 12 noon Fourth Saturday; Scholarship fund raiser for Vision Academy of the Arts. 49111 Cinder Lane - behind the Community Center, Oakhurst. Details: Sheila Adams (559) 642-4329.
MAMA - Mountain Area Merchant Association: 6 p.m. First Wednesday; Join other merchants to discuss promoting local area business. Crab Cakes Restaurant, 49271 Golden Oak Loop, Oakhurst. Free. Details: Colette Goga (559) 683-7977.
Women in Business - sponsored by the Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce: Noon Second Thursday; networking with business leaders, owners and managers. Call for location and schedule, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-7766, oakhurstchamber.com.
Southern High Sierra Corvettes: 6 p.m. social hour, meeting starts at 7 p.m. First Tuesday; southernhighsierracorvettes.com. Yosemite Gateway Inn Restaurant at Best Western, 40530 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: Paul Linton (559) 676-0680.
North Fork Women's Club: 10 a.m. First Wednesday; scholarship funding for women. Mill Site meeting room, 57839 Road 225, North Fork. Details: (559) 877-6554.
Sierra Mountain Quilters Association: 6 p.m. First Thursday; Oakhurst Community Center, 39800 Road 425B, Oakhurst. Details: sierramountainquilters.org.
DAR - Sierra Foothills Chapter "Daughters of the American Revolution.": 11:30 a.m. Third Saturday; Sweetwater Steak House, Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: Dee Triebold (559) 658-8726.
La Sierra Guild of Valley Children's Hospital: 1 p.m. Second Wednesday; Lutheran Church, Crane Valley Road (426) and Black Road, Oakhurst. Details: Patty Spinelli email : email@example.com.
Gold Dust Dancers - Square & Line Dancing: 7 p.m. Wednesdays; Line dancing 6-7 p.m., donation $2 per week. New Square dance class starts March 16 at 7 p.m. donation $5 a week. Community Center, 39800 Road 425B, Oakhurst. www.golddustdancers.com. Details: (559) 692-2145 or (559) 868-3319.
Baha'i's of the Mountain Area: 7 p.m. Third Wednesday of the month ; discussion on topics: Elimination of Prejudice, Life after Death, Equality of Men and Women. Yosemite Bank community room, Oakhurst. Details: Don Reed (559) 683-7702 or www.bahai.us.
Farmer's Market Bass Lake - Opening May 18: 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays; many vendors, entertainment, fresh flowers, jams, honey soap and produce is wonderful fresh from the farm. Sponsored by the Bass Lake Chamber of Commerce. goodoldaze.com Pines Village, Bass Lake. Details: Chuck Nugent (559) 642-8163 .
Farmer's Market - Oakhurst - coming in May: 4 - 7 p.m. Thursdays; True Value Home Center on Hwy. 49, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-7117.
Fashion Show - Ladies of the Lakes - Scholarship fundraiser: 1:30 p.m. doors open Ticket sales starts April 30 deadline is June 1 ; 50/50 raffle, door prizes, finger food with special guest model Carmen George of the the Fresno Bee. YLP Club House, 30250 Yosemite Springs Parkway, YLP Coarsegold. $15. Details: Sue Corcoran (559) 658-7307.
Mayor's Prayer Breakfast: 7 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. (doors open at 6:40 a.m.) Thursday, May 5; National day of prayer scripture is Isaiah 58:1a NIV "Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet." Hatfield Hall, Madera Fairgrounds, Madera. $15.
"A Walk in the Garden" MCW - Garden Tour: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, May 7; Mountain Community Women sponsoring the event which includes lunch, outdoor flea market, plant sale. Lunch served between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Community Center, 39800 Road 425B - Main Hall, Oakhurst. $15. Details: Diane Kraft (559) 683-3901 .
9th Annual Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony: noon Tuesday, May 10; Hosted by Sheriff Jay Varney Courthouse Park, Madera. Details: Bill Ward, Commander (559) 675-7718, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Calissa Crumption's Senior Project - "History - The Dinner Show 1": 6 p.m. Friday, May 13 to May 14; Proceeds for new timing system for swim called the "Colorado 6". YLP Club House, 30250 Yosemite Springs Parkway, Coarsegold. $45 includes dinner and show. Details: (559) 676-8491 or online at ccrumption3863.wix.com/history-dinnershow1.
Bodys By Boyd - Open House & Mixer - Oakhurst Chamber of Commerce: 5 - 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 17; Food, Fun, Networking. Door prizes and no host bar. 40140 Enterprise Dr. off of Hwy. 49, Oakhurst. Free. Details: (559) 683-7766.
44th Annual Tri-county Art Show -Yosemite Western Art (YWA) : 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21 to May 29; Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Pastel, Fiber, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture Timberline Art Gallery, 40982 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-7972.
BBQ - Military Appreciation: 12 noon - 3 p.m. Saturday, May 21; honor veterans and thank the supporters. BBQ tri-tip, Music, Celebration, Family Fun. Dr. Michael Horasanian DDS office on Crane Valley Road (426), Oakhurst. Free. Details: (559) 683-4691.
Coarsegold Historic Village: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Second Tuesday; fresh, perishable food and other items. Some foods have limits so enough for everyone. Bring bags with you. 35300 Hwy. 41, Coarsegold. Free. Details: (559) 237-3663.
North Fork - Grace Community Church: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Fourth Tuesday; fresh, perishable food and other items. Some foods have limits so enough for everyone. Bring bags with you. 56442 Road 200, North Fork. Free. Details: (559) 237-3663.
Our Lady of the Sierra: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Third Tuesday; fresh, perishable food and other items. Some foods have limits so there may not be enough for everyone. Bring bags with you. 40180 Indian Springs Road, Oakhurst. Free. Details: (559) 237-3663.
Raymond Community Church: 9 a.m.- 12 p.m. First Tuesday; fresh and perishable food and other items. Some foods have limits so enough for everyone. Bring bags with you. Community Church - 325505 Road 600, Raymond. Free. Details: (559) 237-3663.
Oakhurst Petanque Club: 9 a.m. Saturdays; www.oakhurstpetanque.org. Behind Oakhurst Elementary School on School Road (427), Oakhurst. Free. Details: Tish (559) 683-6540.
Coarsegold Community Center: Monday doors open 10 a.m. games begin 12:15 p.m. ; breakfast last Saturday of the month. All you can eat, pancakes & eggs or biscuits and gravy. $5. 7 -11 a.m. 35610 Hwy. 41, Coarsegold. Details: Connie (559) 683-5879.
Spaghetti dinner - Our Lady of the Sierra : 5 - 7 p.m. First Friday; monthly dinner prepared by the Knights of Columbus. All you can eat includes salad, bread, dessert and beverage. 40180 Indian Springs Road, Oakhurst. $7.50 adults, youth 18 and under $4, families $20. Details: (559) 760-7406.
Pancake Breakfast : 7 a.m. - noon Last Saturday; all you can eat - proceeds to benefit the Coarsegold Community Center. 35540 Hwy. 41, Coarsegold. $5. Details: Agnes Wiley (559) 683-5646.
Book Sale by FOBL : 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7; - Friends of the Oakhurst Branch Library, proceeds benefit the Oakhurst Branch Library. Library Community Room, 49044 Civic Circle Dr., Oakhurst. $3 for our bag. Details: (559) 683-7552, oakhurstfobl.com.
Parking Lot Sale supporting the Relay For Life of Eastern Madera County: 9 a.m. - til midnight Saturday, May 14; parking lot sale with several teams bringing baked goods, raffle tickets for sale and lots of treasures collected by many of our teams. Sign up or make a donation: bit.ly/1Mw50rs. Badger Stadium at Yosemite High School, Oakhurst. Details: Tami Michel (559) 658-1410.
Parking Lot Sale supporting Yosemite Badger's Youth Cheer: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday, May 14; Rummage sale, baked goods, lemonade stand and also Just Daisy gift boutique items and specialty T-shirts. Idea Print Work, 40085 Enterprise Drive, Oakhurst. Details: Michele Shockley (559) 658-1803.
Reception - 44th Annual Yosemite Western Artists: 4 - 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21; oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, fiber, mixed media and more. Exhibition runs May 21 - 29. Timberline Art Gallery, 40982 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst.
Mountain Laurel Garden Club: 10 a.m. First Friday; meet at members homes, in the Mountain Area. Details: Cheryl (559) 683-4079.
Manzanita Garden Club: 11 a.m. Second Thursday; , Oakhurst. Details: Janice Avent (559) 683-5395.
Mother's Day Craft Fair at Bass Lake: 10 a.m - 5 p.m. Friday, May 6 to May 8; come and support our local Artists and Vendors. Designed goods. Artisan crafts, photography and unique finds. Pines Resort, Bass Lake. Free. Details: Amy (800) 350-7463 .
Memorial Day Events - VFW Post 8743 and Marine Corps League Griswold Detachment 1121: Monday, May 30; Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving. The schedule as follows: 9 a.m. The Indian Cemetery at the Wassama Round House on Road 628, Ahwahnee. 10 a.m. The Oakhill Cemetery, Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. 11 a.m. The Picayune Cemetery above the Casino. 1 p.m. The North Fork Cemetery. , . Details: (559) 868-3518.
Republican Party of Madera County (RPMC): 11:30 a.m. First Monday; go to website for details: MaderacountyGOP.com. Madera Municipal Golf Course, Ave 17, Madera. Details: Mary (559) 683-5757 for reservations please.
TOPS (take off pounds sensibly): 10:30 a.m. Mondays; Weight support group. Promise Land bldg., Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church, 39696 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: Val Stocker (559) 760-1177.
Oakhurst Elks Lodge - 2724 : 7 p.m. Second and Fourth Tuesdays; Elks Lodge, 42484 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-2717.
Tea Party Action meeting Oakhurst - Coarsegold - This month only May 12 Thursday: 6:30 p.m. Second Tuesday; centralvalleyteaparty.com. Yosemite Gateway Inn Restaurant at Best Western, 40530 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 642-4921 or email@example.com.
Oakhurst Women's Fellowship: Noon, First Wednesday; speakers, music, door prizes and fun. Sweetwater Steak House, Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. $11 inclusive. Details: (559) 642-4872.
Sierra Lodge - Free and Accepted Masons - 788: Meeting 6 p.m. First Wednesday; dinners - 3rd Friday of each month. 40216 Hwy. 49, Oakhurst. Details: Darren Stearns (559) 642-4513.
Mountain Bear Fan Club: 11:30 a.m. Third Thursday. Details: (559) 683-1111.
Woodcarvers - Central Sierra Woodcarvers: 12 p.m. Thursdays; beginners to advanced. Tools available. Senior Center, 49111 Cinder Lane, Oakhurst. Free. Details: Larry Smith (559) 906-4198, email email@example.com.
Madera Oversight Coalition General Meeting (MOC): 6 p.m. Second Monday; our goal is to inform the public and discuss county wide issues that can cost us all money ($) and encourage responsible growth. Library Community Room, 49044 Civic Circle Dr., Oakhurst. email@example.com. Details: (559) 868-4400.
North Fork Rancheria TANF Executive Board : 5 p.m. Fourth Thursday; meetings subject to change, call to confirm date and location. , North Fork. Details: Vicki Kelley (559) 877-2461.
Coarsegold Resource Conservation District: 9 a.m. Fourth Thursday; North Fork Mill site on Road 225, CDC Conference Room, North Fork. Details: (559) 642-3263.
La Sierra Guild of Valley Children's Hospital: 1 p.m. Second Wednesday; Lutheran Church, Crane Valley Road (426) and Black Road, Oakhurst. Details: Patty Spinelli email : firstname.lastname@example.com.
Oakhurst Sewer Advisory - MD22A: 8:30 a.m. First Wednesday; Discussing Oakhurst Sewer and Water issues. Raley's Community Room, Hwy 41 and Hwy 49, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-5757.
Madera Regional Water Management Group: 1:30 p.m. Second Monday; Discussing all water issues in Madera County. rotating locations, Oakhurst. Details: and location (559) 642-7788.
Oakhurst Democratic Club - : 8:30 a.m. breakfast, meeting starts at 9:30 a.m. First Saturday; Special speakers invited monthly. Featured Speaker Dr. Darin J. Soukup May 7th. Discussion will be focusing on the role of local college center and our economy. Measure C discussion. Denny's - 40650 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 641-6617.
LDS - Family History Center: 12 noon Second Tuesday; subject: Immigration Records May 10. LDS Church, 49969 School Road (427), Oakhurst. Free Genealogy class. Details: firstname.lastname@example.com or (559) 683-8878.
Women In Business Luncheon and Networking: Noon - 1:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12; Speaker Dianna Conaway of Western Sierra Nursery "Beautifying your Garden and Mind". Sponsored by Bass Lake Boat Rentals Ducey's On The Lake at the Pines Resort, Bass Lake. $18 for chamber members, $20 for guests/non-members. Details: RSVP (559) 683-7766; email@example.com.
Kamanawannaplaya Ukelele Club of Oakhurst: 5 p.m. Tuesdays; beginners to advanced over the age of 18. Lessons available. Library Community Room, 49044 Civic Circle Dr., Oakhurst. Free. Details: Laurie B. Ballard (559) 760-4746.
YHS Choral - Spring Concert: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10; Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church, 39696 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. $4 at the door. Details: Christel Biasell (559) 683-4667 ext 242.
Mountain Pianists: 2 - 4 p.m. Sunday, May 15; Library Community Room, 49044 Civic Circle Dr., Oakhurst. Details: Lucie Richter (559) 683-0352.
Paddle Palooza - American Cancer Society Benefit: 9 a.m. Saturday, May 7; Sponsored by YHS Leos and Lions Clubs. Races, Cash / Prizes, Family Fun. Bass Lake Boat Rentals, Bass Lake. Fundraiser. Details: (559) 642-3200 or www.basslakeboatrentals.com.
7th Annual - Mountain Area Bloom Run : 7:30 a.m. run and 7:40 walk Saturday, May 21; 10K, 5K Run and 2 mile fun walk. All proceeds go to Rivergold Athletics. More Details: www.mountainbloomrun.com. YLP clubhouse., YLP Coarsegold. Must pre-register. Details: Sarah Curley (559) 692-2329.
Boy Scout Troop - 316: 6:30 p.m. Mondays; boys ages 11 (or in 6th grade) to 17. Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church, 39696 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: George Stillman (559) 642-7683.
Boy Scout Troop - 357: 7 p.m. Mondays; boys ages 11 (or in 6th grade) to 17. Scout Building, North Fork. Details: Dave Smith (559) 877-2186.
Cub Scout Troop 314: 6 p.m. Tuesdays; boys ages 6 to 10 (1st - 5th grade) Rivergold School, Coarsegold. Details: Den Leader Tim McGrew (559) 760-3369.
Boy Scout Troop - 341: 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays; boys ages 11 (or 6th grade) to 17. Oak Creek Intermediate (OCI), Oakhurst. www.bsaoaktroop341.org. Details: Ben Kenison (559) 676-2335.
Royal Rangers - Outpost 242: Wednesdays; boys ages 5-18. Mountain Christian Center, 40299 Hwy. 49, Oakhurst. Details: Andy Clendenning (559) 683-8760.
Cub Scout Pack - 341: 6 p.m. Last Thursday; boys ages 6 to 10 (1st - 5th grade) weekly Den locations vary, Oakhurst. Details: Larry Jeffries (559) 658-5292.
Alanon: Tuesday 6 p.m. and Friday noon; New Community United Methodist Church, 49223 Crane Valley Road (426), Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-1166.
Alanon: 7 p.m. Mondays; Yosemite Lakes Park Community Church, 43840 Patrick Avenue, Module #2, YLP Coarsegold. Details: (559) 683-1166.
Celebrate Recovery: 5:45 p.m. dinner and 6:30 p.m. meeting Tuesdays and 5 p.m. Wednesdays; find freedom from your hurts, hang-ups and habits. Sierra Pines Church, 40855 Covey Court, Highway 49, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-2882.
Alcoholics Anonymous : meetings in all mountain areas daily ; visit: oakhurstaa.org, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 683-1662.
Coarsegold - Senior Nutrition Program: 11:30 a.m. Monday - Friday ; to order lunch, call by noon the previous week day. Community Center, Coarsegold. $1.75 seniors 60 plus, guest $4.50. Details: Jeri (559) 683-7953.
North Fork - Senior Nutrition Program: 11:30 a.m. Monday-Friday ; to order lunch, call by noon the previous week day. Community Center, North Fork. $1.75 seniors 60 plus, guest $4.50. Details: Jamie Flippen (559) 877-2346.
Oakhurst - Senior Nutrition Program: 11:30 a.m. Monday-Friday ; . Sierra Senior Center, 49111 Cinder Lane, Oakhurst. $1.75 seniors 60 plus, guest $4.50. Details: Brendan Drew (559) 683-3811.
MCW - Mountain Community Women: 9:30 a.m. social and 10 a.m. business meeting First Monday; Community Center on Road 425B, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 641-6572 or mountaincommunitywomen.com.
Oakhurst Sierra Sunrise Rotary Club: 7 a.m. Tuesdays; Yosemite Gateway Restaurant at Best Western, Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: President Jackie Mallouf (559) 683-6832.
Sierra Oakhurst Kiwanis: Noon Tuesdays; Yosemite Gateway Inn Restaurant at Best Western, 40530 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: Vicki Burkhalter (559) 683-5854.
Bass Lake Lions: 11:30 a.m. Second and Fourth Wednesdays; President Chris Baker Ducey's Restaurant, Bass Lake. Details: basslakelions.org.
Oakhurst Sierra Rotary: Noon Wednesdays; Yosemite Gateway Restaurant at Best Western, Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: President Dr. Bob Brosi.
Sierra Lions Club: 6 p.m. First and Third Wednesdays; President Don Keifer. Denny's - 40530 Hwy. 41, Oakhurst. Details: sierralionsclub.org.
Soroptimist International of the Sierras: 12 noon, First and Third Thursdays; Crab Cakes Restaurant, 49271 Golden Oak Loop, Oakhurst. Details: President Dannie Forbes at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Senior Singles Dining Club - 55+: 5 p.m. Second Thursday; May 12 dinner at Di Cicco's Italian Restaurant on Hwy 41 and Road 426. Dinner at a different local restaurant every month, Oakhurst. Details: Reservations (559) 760-8372.
Helping Hands Pregnancy and Parenting Center: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Thursday ; pregnancy test and parenting classes. Earn Baby Bucks to shop in the boutique. Mon - Thurs. 10-4 p.m. 40356 Oak Park Way, Suite A & B, Oakhurst. Free. Details: Kenya (559) 642-2229.
Chronic Illness Group: 10 a.m. First and Third Thursday; anyone suffering from chronic illness including cancer, diabetes, Fibromyalgia, I.B.S. or chronic back pain. 3rd Thursday each month will practice Tai Chi. Lutheran Church, 39255 Black Road, Oakhurst. Details: Mary Nelsen (559) 658-1394.
Better Breathers: 12:30 p.m. Last Saturday; anyone with COPD or breathing problems (and spouse). Yosemite Bank community room - outside entrance, Oakhurst. Details: Jackie Wilson (559) 683-4250.
PFLAG: 6 -8 p.m. Second Tuesday; PFlag is a nonprofit organization for parents, friends of lesbian and gays. Offering support and education for all individuals. Community Room, 49044 Civic Circle, Oakhurst. Free. Details: Jennifer Rogers (559) 760-8701.
Mommy Time - Support: 1:30 - 3 p.m. (Doors open at 1 p.m.) First Wednesday; support, information and education for moms and moms-to-be. Sponsored by Natural Instincts Community Birth Collective. North Fork Studio, North Fork. Free. Details: Jenny (559) 240-4370.
Alzheimer's Disease/Dementia by Valley Caregiver Resource Center: 10 - 11:30 a.m. Second and Fourth Tuesdays; support group for individuals caring for persons with Alzheimer's or dementia. Lutheran Church, 39255 Black Road, Oakhurst. Free. Details: (800) 541-8614 or Carol (559) 683-4045.
Gambling Problems - Free Counseling: sessions offered Monday - Saturday; do you or someone you know have a gambling problem? Individual or family counseling is available with an authorized treatment provider, trained through the office of Problem Gambling and UCLA. , Oakhurst. Free. Details: Licensed Clinician, David Johnson (559) 707-9212.
Caring Veterans of America: 9 a.m. Second Wednesday; Hitching Post - Hwy. 49, Ahwahnee. Details: Commander Terry Cole (559) 658-8939.
American Legion - Post 110: 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. regular meeting. Third Thursday; Community Center, 34540 Hwy. 41, Coarsegold. Details: (559) 683-1215.
Marine Corps League, Griswold Mountain Detachment - 1121: 9:30 a.m. Second Saturday; Positive Living Center, 40056 Indian Springs Road, Oakhurst. Details: Jim Winney (559) 658-2062.
VFW Post 8743: 11 a.m. Second Saturday; Positive Living Center, 40056 Indian Springs Road, Oakhurst. Details: Gary Powell (559) 658-5182.
Hero's Day: 8 a.m. Friday, May 27; Family fun for those who serve! Military I.D., it's all Free (lunch too!) Skiing, Tubing, Fishing, Queen Rides. Bass Lake Boat Rentals, Bass Lake. Details: (559) 642-3200.
EMC - SPCA: 5:30 p.m. Second Tuesday; if you love animals and would like to help. The Cat's Meow, 40315 Junction Dr. Suite C, Oakhurst. Details: (559) 642-6611.
Central Valley Writer's Workshop: 6:30 p.m. Thursdays; Ginsburg room in the Chowchilla Library on north corner of Third Street and Kings Avenue, Chowchilla. Details: Glenna Jarvis (559) 665-7381, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Assistant Professor, General Faculty
Research Interests:
My research focuses primarily on Greek and Roman historiography. This includes an interest in the connections between historiography and other areas of study such as science and technology, political thought, and practices of leadership.
My current book project -- Polybius: Experience and the Lessons of History -- explores the conflict in Polybius' work between the unrivaled value of learning from personal experience and his emphasis on the instructional purpose of history. To clarify Polybius' views on the proper pathway to true knowledge, my study traces the development of prominent figures -- such as Hannibal and Scipio Africanus -- as the learn from these methods in the course of Polybius' historical narrative.
"Learning from Experience: Polybius and the Progress of Rome." Classical Quarterly 67 (2017), 132-148.
"Proof through the Night: Representations of Fire-signaling in Greek Historiography." Histos (forthcoming).
review of Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus, by L. I. Hau (2016). RSR (submitted).
review of Polybius and His World: Essays in Memory of F. W. Walbank, edited by B. Gibson and T. Harrison (2013). RSR 40.3.153.
I received my Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Virginia in 2013. I subsequently taught at James Madison University and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville before returning to UVA in 2016.


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